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Robots Step Into New Planting, Harvesting Roles
Wall Street Journal ^
| April 23, 2015
| ILAN BRAT
Posted on 04/24/2015 7:28:14 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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There are alternatives to letting "crops rot in the fields" if the number of guest workers is reduced.
To: reaganaut1
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posted on
04/24/2015 7:30:03 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: reaganaut1
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posted on
04/24/2015 7:30:47 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Clearly Cruz 2016)
To: reaganaut1
Why “workers in short supply” with the intense foreigner importation efforts of Big Ears & Co.?
Oh, he couldn’t possibly want them to be working for the conservative capitalists? Just be dependent on the liberals?
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posted on
04/24/2015 7:32:10 AM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: reaganaut1
But the number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. workforce has been declining since its peak in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center, in part because of increased job opportunities in Mexico, as well as tighter U.S. border patrols. Uh-huh. And with that I dismiss the entire article...
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04/24/2015 7:33:59 AM PDT
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logi_cal869
(-cynicus-)
To: reaganaut1
Kudos though to Big Robotry. Ever since the combine, men have been engineering better and better ways to automate harvests. People will still be needed to run and service the machines, though. It will never be a people-free industry. Nature is too gnarly for that.
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04/24/2015 7:34:29 AM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: reaganaut1
Cheap slave labor weaken the South... The North was forced to industrialize because wages paid were higher. The North was the long term winner.
This invention could stop the money that props up illegals flooding the country.It's a game changer.
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posted on
04/24/2015 7:35:21 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Dead Broke Hillary Dodged Sniper Fire With Her Immigrant Parents In Tuzla - Steyn)
To: logi_cal869
Pew, not as in church, but as in stink... someone really ought to press them for explanation.
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04/24/2015 7:35:26 AM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: GOPJ
Someone has to engineer, build, operate, and service the robots.
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posted on
04/24/2015 7:36:11 AM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: reaganaut1
I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
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posted on
04/24/2015 7:37:10 AM PDT
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Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: Alex Murphy
are these Mexican robots?
To: GOPJ
Chattel slavery was also a spiritual/moral ball-and-chain. Call me simple minded, but I say when you do that to people (this isn’t either POW conscription or indentured servitude, the types of “slaves” mentioned in the bible) and then you go before God as Dixie did and beg to be a “free” country — you are just asking for instant karma, to mix terminology shamelessly. God’s going to laugh you off as a hypocrite and will be no help.
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04/24/2015 7:39:56 AM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Alex Murphy
Only if you intend to idolize them. As tools they are wonderful.
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04/24/2015 7:40:31 AM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Borges
Cool! Another little known factoid is that when the Eisenhower administration launched
Operation Wetback (yes, they really called it that) in May 1954, the crop widely predicted to rot in the fields was tomatoes. Ike's Secretary of Agriculture took a lot of heat from the agribusiness lobby for supporting his boss. A mechanical tomato harvester was on the market two years later.
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posted on
04/24/2015 7:43:04 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: reaganaut1
They don’t come here for the ‘jobs’.
They come here for the freebies.................
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04/24/2015 7:44:15 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: reaganaut1
The rise of robotization is yet another reason we need no more immigrants - legal or illegal. They are being imported for reasons of political and economic power, not because they are needed.
To: reaganaut1
I have friends with very large farms. When they harvest the corn, the guy just sits there and lets the machine do all the work. He takes control if it needs to stop for any reason, but it literally will harvest whatever field or partial field it is set to cover. They are GPS controlled and the guy in the cab only gets involved to over-ride the autopilot - stuff like stopping to clear debris or other “special” circumstances.
My brother in law owns a 115 foot yacht that could drive itself from his favorite cove in Alaska all the way to Seattle.
If the Lord waits, we are going to see HUGE changes in getting things done without human inervention.
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04/24/2015 7:46:52 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: River Hawk
A cynical move in the name of humanitarianism... more like manipulatarianism to coin a word.
In the long term that won’t prosper before God let alone people.
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04/24/2015 7:47:11 AM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: GOPJ
This invention could stop the money that props up illegals flooding the country.It's a game changer. We wish. Only a small percentage of border jumpers are heading for temporary jobs in agriculture these days. Most of them are heading for already established urban neighborhoods of fellow colonists who hang drywall, repair cars, deal drugs and collect free $h*+ from the gullible gringa.
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posted on
04/24/2015 7:47:17 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Borges
Progress you say?
From my perspective, automation may increase the "quality of life" for many, but removing human beings from direct production increases the speed of moral decay, and decreases the capacity for applying practical knowledge (common sense) within society.
Build a man's character, thus truly improving the quality of an entire culture by handing him a shovel and having him clean out ditches... not by sending him to government school to learn how to program PLCs on a Ditchdigger 3000.
Physical labor is undervalued is all I am saying.
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posted on
04/24/2015 7:49:20 AM PDT
by
Rodamala
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